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I am participating in the A to Z 2012 blog challenge throughout April. My theme is a genealogical travelogue or a travel genealogue (I'm not sure which).
C is for Clare, Cairndow, Coleford and Charters Towers
It looks like C has been a busy letter of the alphabet in our family, and that's without going into names!
C is for County Clare, Ireland
County Clare is my 2xgreat grandmother's home place and her granddaughter remembered her saying always that she was "Mary O'Brien from Co Clare". I talked a little about Mary in "B for Ballykelly" so I won't detour here. Because I've never managed to locate her immigration records despite years of searching, I started looking at all the migration records for O'Briens from Clare to Australia. One thing led to another, and the next thing I was researching the immigration of anyone from East County Clare, with a focus on the baronies of Tulla Lower and Upper. This has been a pretty interesting voyage including clerical intrigue to ensure young parishioners could come to Australia during the American Civil War era. This research project has been languishing a little, while I decide "where to from here" but I'd love to hear from anyone who comes from the Clare parishes east of Ennis. You can read more about my interest here.
C is for Cairndow, Scotland
Cairndow aka Cairndhu is one of my favourite places. It's a tiny hamlet near the head of Loch Fyne in Argyll, Scotland and close to Ardkinglas, which we've already discussed. Although I had done lots of family history homework before I went to Scotland in the late 1980s, Cairndow hadn't come up, so as we came off the highway we took the left turn and headed further down the loch to Strachur, another ancestral site. Some time after my return, while roaming through my old memorabilia I found a postcard from my paternal grandmother's belongings. On the front it had an image of the church at Cairndow and on the reverse the notation "Doesn't it put in mind of puir old Scotland"…you might imagine my frustration.
Eventually I found out that the Cairndow church pictured was the final resting place of my paternal grandmother's grandmother, Isabella Morrison wife of James McCorkindale (love the way Scottish women kept their identity!). The little church at Cairndow is actually the Kilmorich Parish church and is an absolute delight. It rests below a Scottish hill covered in bracken, heather or snow, and is hexagonal in shape with a small tower. Inside it's simplicity itself, probably typical of Presbyterian churches, but I find it so much more soothing than ostentatious cathedrals of any denomination. Inside the door there's an ancient baptismal font from the late 15th century. Just outside the door as you leave the church, on your left as you walk down the path, you will see Isabella's grave. The inscription at the base is beautiful "My star of life is set, I await the morning sun". I often wonder if the daffodils we planted on her grave one early spring, burst forth anew each year, echoing her hope of eternal life.
Charters Towers, Australia
Charters Towers, the town they called The World, was a boom mining town of the late 19thcentury and it was there that my great-grandfather and his family repaired to rebuild both his reputation and their fortune after various family disasters in southern Queensland. Stephen Gillespie Melvin established refreshment rooms in Gill Street, with a confectionery factory behind. It was a family business and Stephen was supported by his wife Emily and children. Charters Towers lost its economic oomph when mining ceased to be such a key industry after World War I, and this probably helped preserve the significant number of heritage buildings. Sadly the Melvin's shop was not one of the current survivors…it was demolished decades ago.
The cemetery is a family heritage site Stephen's wife, Emily, and his mother, Margaret nee Gilhespy/Gillespie, are both buried there and remembered with a rather ostentatious gravestone.
C is for Coleford, England
Coleford is a market town in the Forest of Deanin the very west of England not far from the Welsh border. Although my 2xgreat grandfather on my maternal side, William Partridge, was born in London, his family subsequently lived in Coleford, Gloucestershire. It seems the family's roots were not in Coleford specifically but rather the general area. William's parents John and Eliza Partridge are buried in the cemetery there. While the town doesn't excite me, or speak to me greatly, the surrounding areas can be quite beautiful and one wonderful place to visit is the Cathedral of the Forest.
This is a fantastic website for anyone with Forest of Dean ancestry: Forest of Dean Family History.


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Actor's baby girl born night he stars on Broadway
NEW YORK — The night of June 17, 2014, won't be easily forgotten by Broadway star Josh Tower.
He both made his debut in "Motown the Musical" and hours later welcomed the birth of a daughter.
"It was insane," said a smiling and exhausted Tower backstage recently at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, where he happily offers visitors chilled bubbly and cigars.
"I love that this is the story of our first 'Motown' baby," said Charles Randolph-Wright, the show's director. "Of course, his first night was when his wife went into labor. How could it not be?"
The night started with Tower officially stepping into the musical's lead role of Berry Gordy after just two full rehearsals. By intermission, his wife Karen was texting that she was having contractions.
By the middle of Act 2, Tower's wife texted a stage manager backstage that she was heading to the hospital but insisted that her husband not be disturbed.
"She said, 'No, don't tell Josh until the show's done. He has to be able to do this,'" her husband recalled. "She's just a rock."
The show, which tells the story of how Gordy's Motown Records empire rose and fell and then rose again, ended with Tower still somewhat in the dark about his wife's location.
"The curtain comes down at the end of the show and I hear everyone go 'Yeah! Go! Go!'" he said. "I was like, 'Yeah, woo-ho! Go!' They were like, 'No, GO! GO!'"
Tower slipped off his costume and sprinted to a waiting car that took him to St. Luke's Hospital, where his wife and mother-in-law were waiting. In a twist, it turns out their doctor, Maria Teaiwa-Rutherford, is Diana Ross' gynecologist.
A gorgeous daughter arrived at 4:45 a.m., weighing 7 pounds, 14 ounces. They named her Marlowe Rose — a mix of her parents' middle names of Arlo and Rosario. He was back at work two nights later, listening to the cast sing a suddenly appropriate tune: "My Girl."
His daughter immediately had an effect on dad — putting his scramble to be Broadway-ready in perspective: "I'm like, 'I can do these shows. It's OK.' Everything after that is fine. It's kind of like Shakespeare. Once you do Shakespeare, the rest of it is a cake walk."
Marlowe is the second child for Tower and his wife, who met on an online dating site in 2009. He was in Los Angeles doing "Parade" at the Mark Taper Forum and she was a lawyer in New York. After courting for months, they met for the first time in October that year when he flew in for 24 hours. They met downtown, chatting all day over sushi.
"Basically, the rest is history. We got along really well," Tower said. "More so than any relationship that I've ever been in before, it was really about our banter, our intelligence, our words, our inner beings — before any of the physical stuff."
Tower, who was born at the Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota, grew up in Ambler, Pennsylvania, while his mother taught at Temple University, which he also attended.
His first stage role was in "South Pacific" in 10th grade. "I was Soldier No. 3 from the left," he said, laughing. Tower also played football and baseball and wrestled. He was on active duty for two years in the Army and got his master's at the University of North Carolina.
He's appeared on Broadway in "Ragtime" and did a six-year stint as Simba in "The Lion King," after touring with it for a year. He and Karen also have a son, Luke, who just celebrated his second birthday.
One of those who watched while Tower celebrated both a new Broadway role and a lovely new daughter on the same night was Randolph-Wright.
"Besides excitement, you never saw the stress of it. He handled it extraordinarily," he said. "To be able to deal with that and to shine, which he does, I was just impressed."
Online: http://www.MotownTheMusical.com

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Mars rover Curiosity set to hit the road again (Update)
After playing in the sand, the Curiosity rover is poised to trek across the Martian landscape in search of a rock to drill into, scientists reported Thursday.
The six-wheel rover has been parked for more than a month at a sand dune where it has been busy scooping up soil, sniffing the atmosphere and measuring radiation levels on the surface. Its next task is to zero in on a rock and that requires driving to a new location.
Mission deputy scientist Ashwin Vasavada expected Curiosity to be on the move in the "next few days."
"It's the bedrock which really gives you the story of ancient Mars," said Vasavada of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which manages the $2.5 billion mission. "The soil is a little harder to interpret because we don't know how old it is or where it came from."
The car-size rover touched down in Gale Crater, an ancient depression near the Martian equator, in August on a two-year mission to probe whether the landing site once had conditions capable of supporting microbial life. Armed with a high-tech suite of instruments, it's the most sophisticated spacecraft to ever land on the red planet.
During the first three months, a weather station aboard Curiosity detected brief drops in air pressure, a sign of whirlwinds in the region.
"These events are starting to occur more and more often," said Manuel de la Torre Juarez of NASA JPL. "We expect to see more in the future."
Previous rovers have spotted and even recorded dust devils dancing across the Martian terrain, but scientists said Curiosity has not yet seen evidence that the swirling winds have lifted dust.
Curiosity's ultimate destination is a 3-mile-high (5-kilometer-high) mountain rising from the center of the crater floor that's rich in mineral deposits. Scientists had hoped to drive to the base before the end of the year, but that doesn't look likely after the extended stay at its current spot.
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Health care providers attend to millions of Americans with musculoskeletal injuries each year, according to the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS). More than one in four Americans has a musculoskeletal condition that needs medical attention. Sprains A sprain is caused by trauma--a fall, twist or blow to the body, for example--that knocks a joint out of position and overstretches or even ruptures supporting ligaments. Some examples: When you land on an outstretched arm, slide into a base, land on the side of the foot or run on an uneven surface. Although the intensity varies, pain, bruising and inflammation are common to all three categories of sprains: mild, moderate and severe. You may feel a tear or pop in the joint. With a severe sprain, ligaments tear completely or separate from the bone. This loosening interferes with joint function. A moderate sprain partially tears the ligament, producing joint instability and some swelling. A ligament is stretched in a mild sprain, but there is no joint loosening or instability. Sprains happen most often in the ankle, and are more likely if you've had a previous sprain there. Repeated sprains can lead to ankle arthritis, a loose ankle or tendon injury. Strains Acute strains are caused by stretching or pulling a muscle or tendon. Chronic strains are the result of overuse of muscles and tendons, through prolonged, repetitive movement. Inadequate rest during intense training can cause a strain. Typical symptoms of strain include pain, muscle spasm, muscle weakness, swelling, inflammation and cramping. In severe strains, the muscle and/or tendon is partially or completely ruptured, leaving the person incapacitated. Some muscle function will be lost with a moderate strain, in which the muscle/tendon is overstretched and slightly torn. With a mild strain, the muscle or tendon is stretched or pulled, slightly. These are some common strains: Back strain. When the muscles that support the spine are twisted, pulled or torn. Athletes who engage in excessive jumping--during basketball or volleyball, for example--are vulnerable to this injury. Hamstring muscle strain. A tear or stretch of a major muscle in the back of the thigh. The injury can sideline a person for up to six months. The likely cause is muscle strength imbalance between the hamstrings and the quadriceps, the muscles in the front of the thigh. Kicking a football, running or leaping to make a basket can pull a hamstring. Hamstring injuries tend to recur. Breaks Bone breaks, unlike sprains and strains, should always be looked at by a health care provider to ensure proper healing. Call your provider if the pain does not subside. Athletes are most susceptible All sports and exercises, even walking, carry a risk of sprains. The areas of the body most at risk for a sprain depend on the specific activities involved. For example, basketball, volleyball, soccer and other jumping sports share a risk for foot, leg and ankle sprains. Soccer, football, hockey, boxing, wrestling and other contact sports put athletes at risk for strains. So do sports that feature quick starts, such as hurdling, long jump and running races. Gymnastics, tennis, rowing, golf and other sports that require extensive gripping put participants at higher risk for hand strains. Elbow strains frequently occur in racquet, throwing and contact sports. Treating injuries A severe sprain or strain may require surgery or immobilization, followed by physical therapy. Mild sprains and strains may require rehabilitation exercises and a change in activity during recovery. In all but mild cases, your health care provider should evaluate the injury and establish a treatment and rehabilitation plan. Meanwhile, rest, ice, compression and elevation (called RICE) usually will help minimize damage caused by sprains and strains. You should start RICE immediately after the injury. RICE relieves pain, limits swelling and speeds healing, and it is often the best treatment for soft-tissue injuries, such as sprains and strains. Here's what to do: Rest: The injured area should be moved as little as possible to allow healing to begin. Ice: Apply it immediately to reduce inflammation, which causes more pain and slows healing. Cover the injured area with an ice pack for about 20 to 30 minutes, three to four times a day. Compression: Using a pressure bandage helps to prevent or reduce swelling. Use an elastic bandage. Wrap the injured area without making it so tight that it will cut off the blood supply. Elevation: Raise the injured area above the level of the heart. Prop up a leg or arm while resting it. You may need to lie down to get your leg above your heart level. Do all four parts of the RICE treatment at the same time. If you suspect a more serious injury, such as a broken bone, call your health care provider immediately. Prevention No one is immune to sprains and strains, but here are some tips developed by the AAOS to help reduce your injury risk: Participate in a conditioning program to build muscle strength. Do stretching exercises daily. Always wear properly fitting shoes. Nourish your muscles by eating a well-balanced diet. Warm up before any sports activity, including practice, and use or wear protective equipment appropriate for that sport.


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The Situation of the Law School Classroom – Abstract
Posted by The Situationist Staff on July 21, 2009
Robert Chang and Adrienne Davis have posted their interesting article, "Making Up is Hard to Do: Race/Gender/Sexual Orientation in the Law School Classroom" (forthcoming Harvard Journal of Law and Gender (2009)) on SSRN. Here's the abstract.
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This exchange of letters picks up where Professors Adrienne Davis and Robert Chang left off in an earlier exchange that examined who speaks, who is allowed to speak, and what is remembered. Here, Professors Davis and Chang explore the dynamics of race, gender, and sexual orientation in the law school classroom. They compare the experiences of African American women and Asian American men in trying to perform as law professors, considering how makeup and other gender tools simultaneously assist and hinder such performances. Their exchange examines the possibility of bias that complicates the use of student evaluations in assessing teaching effectiveness. It hypothesizes that the mechanism by which this bias manifests itself is a variant of stereotype threat, one that they call projected stereotype threat, where stereotypes of incompetence or accent are projected onto the bodies of teachers marked by difference. They examine how institutions respond or, as is more typically the case, fail to respond to these problems. They conclude with some suggestions for change, asserting that if institutions want to pay more than lip service to the goal of diversity, the success and employment conditions of women and minorities will improve only through the hiring of more women and minorities and by addressing directly the issue of bias to educate students about bias and its discriminatory effects on instructors whose bodies are marked by perceived differences and how such bias interferes with their learning.
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To read a sample of related Situationist posts, see "Banning Laptops in the Classroom – Abstract," "The Situational Benefits of Outsiders," and "Some Situational Sources and Consequences of Diversity."
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LAS VEGAS, NEVADA—Here at CES, every TV maker is showing off massive 4K "Ultra HD" TV sets. The high prices for this first wave of 4K TVs—Sony's 84-inch set is a cool $25,000, for instance—are going to make them strictly an early-adopter luxury for now. But digital cinema camera maker RED has the first consumer-ready solution for native 4K playback, perhaps solving the chicken-and-egg problem that threatened to plague adoption of 4K as a home entertainment standard.
Seeing is believing
The quality of image on a 4K Ultra HD TV is quite astounding in person. If you have ever noted the difference between a Retina and non-Retina display on an iPhone, iPad, or MacBook Pro, you can think of 4K as "Retina for TV." Images show a surprising level of detail—you can see every hair on the back of someone's neck, or every slat of the blinds in apartment building windows. Many of the demos on the CES show floor are jaw-dropping.
I can't help but want one.
But the massive Ultra HD resolution—which nearly matches the 4K digital cinema you might see at a newer, well-equipped movie theater—is a waste without native content. TV makers are hawking the quality of upscaling circuitry for existing 1080p content like Blu-ray. It's impressive enough, but certainly not what will drive adoption of the new standard.
Instead, owners are going to want full 3840×2160 resolution content to really make an Ultra HD TV shine. And RED says it can deliver that with its REDRAY 4K Cinema Player. The device was first announced in 2008, and we discussed how it could eventually bring 4K digital cinema technology to the home theater in 2009. In the meantime, RED's engineers have continually improved the product, building it around a 1TB hard drive instead of using discs.
"All those companies that make their bones making shiny plastic discs have realized it's the end of the road for shiny plastic discs," RED's top marketing honcho Ted Schilowitz told Ars.
Toshiba partnered with RED to use a REDRAY player with its Ultra HD TVs in its booth at CES, so we got to see a working one under glass. The $1,450 device is available for preorder now and will ship within a couple months, according to Shilowitz.
"All these companies with 4K panels are really interested in this, because most of them are driving their demos with these exotic server-like boxes," Shilowitz said. "There's no real consumer device to deliver native 4K content. But the REDRAY player is a very modern machine; it just connects using a single HDMI 1.4 cable and delivers full 4K resolution at data rates lower than Blu-ray."
Building a 4K world
Some observers have been skeptical that 4K technology would ever come to the home. "People keep writing that story over and over, how we didn't think 4K was coming. But at RED, we saw this coming seven years ago," Shilowitz said.
Part of the strategy involved building one of the first digital cinema cameras on the market—the RED One—and convincing filmmakers and TV producers to use them.
"We're not really scared of anything," Shilowitz said. "We built these cameras because we thought it was the right way to move to digital capture. We said HD wasn't good enough for capture, and it wasn't good enough for distribution. And a lot of big filmmakers weren't scared either, like Steven Soderberg, like David Fincher, like Peter Jackson."
Now many major motion pictures are shot on 4K equipment. And many TV shows have moved to digital capture as well. "The producers of ER moved to RED at the end of the last season," Shilowitz said. "Now they produce Southland exclusively with RED cameras." Criminal Minds and Justified are other examples that Shilowitz cited.
Even those movies and TV shows still shot on film are typically scanned in, with all post-production happening in the digital realm, and mastered and delivered in a digital format. So loads of native 4K content already exists, though some work may be required to remaster a final cut from the original post-production work files.
Consumer ready
Soon enough, consumers won't have to go to a theater to see 4K content in all its glory. "Every manufacturer that makes panels have 4K TVs here at CES," Shilowitz said. "And these aren't just prototypes—these are devices that are planned for sale soon, and some are already on sale now."
It's not an exaggeration—Ultra HD TVs were everywhere on the show floor. Panasonic, Sharp, LG, Samsung, Sony, and others all had ready-to-launch large, Ultra HD models on the show floor. Even HiSense, a Chinese brand that is perhaps best known for making the cheap HDTVs that line the shelves at your local Walmart, had dozens of Ultra HD TV models on display.
The only problem now is getting all the 4K content being produced to those Ultra HD TV that are already trickling out to consumers. And REDRAY is currently the only viable solution. On the hardware side is the REDRAY Player. On the software side, RED offers the RRENCODE plug-in, which uses wavelet-based compression to funnel massive 4K video files down to a relatively tiny
.red file.
.red files have a data rate of 20Mbps, which is "totally doable for home Internet connections," according to Schilowitz, and the large 1TB drive in the REDRAY player can buffer and cache movies for later playback. The bigger concern might be overall file size; an average 100-minute movie will clock in at about 15GB. Watching a dozen or so 4K movies over your home broadband connection and you might bump up against your ISP's bandwidth limits. That's why the REDRAY player can play back 4K
.red files from an SD card or attached USB drive as well.
RED is partnering with Odemax to create a Netflix-like 4K distribution channel, though details on the service are scarce. We don't know exactly how much 4K movies will cost to rent or buy, and neither does RED. However, the service is supposed to be up and running by the time the REDRAY player ships around March or April.
Still, Ultra HD TVs are new, and it will be some time before they start filling living rooms in great numbers. But Shilowitz thinks adoption will happen faster than the transition from standard-definition to high-definition TV. "4K is great for people that can afford it now, but you're going to see price reductions every 6-9 months," he said. "The road [to 4K] might be a bumpy one, but come along on this ride with us and you'll end up with this amazing payoff."


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New tablet computers from Samsung will feature screens that are richer in color than standard LCDs.
These screens, known as AMOLED for active-matrix organic light-emitting diodes, are already found in smartphones made by Samsung and a few other manufacturers. But until now, tablets haven't used them because larger AMOLED screens are more difficult to produce.
Samsung Electronics Co. is trying to change that with its upcoming line of Android tablets, called the Galaxy Tab S. On Thursday, Samsung announced two such models, with screens of 8.4 inches and 10.5 inches, as measured diagonally.
Samsung is the world's second-largest maker of tablets, behind Apple and its trend-setting iPads. In recent years, Samsung has been gaining market share — at Apple's expense — by offering a wide range of sizes and quality.
Earlier this year, it unveiled a "Pro" brand aimed at professionals. The "Tab" brand has been used on Samsung's budget tablets and don't come with a stylus, as Samsung's "Note" tablets do. With the new screens, Samsung is elevating the Tab line to become its flagship tablet.
Besides producing richer colors, AMOLED allows tablets to be thinner and use less power because screens typically don't require backlighting. But IHS analyst Sweta Dash said the performance gap between AMOLED screens and regular LCDs has narrowed, while AMOLED screens can cost 10 to 30 percent more to make.
Samsung does have the advantage of making its own screens, and the South Korean company can afford to reduce profit margins on tablets if that boosts volume and reduces costs on the screen-production business. What it learns from making tablet screens might even help it one day make affordable AMOLED television sets.
The new tablets will have better screen resolution than last year's Tab line. The new models will all sport displays of 2,560 pixels by 1,600 pixels, matching what's found in the Pro series.
By comparison, Apple's iPad Air is at 2,048 pixels by 1,536 pixels, for a density of 264 pixels per inch. Apple markets its displays as "Retina" and doesn't believe more pixels will necessarily be discernible to the eye. Apple is expected to refresh its iPad lineup this fall.
Until now, iPad rivals have succeeded largely by undercutting Apple on price, and better hardware hasn't been enough, said Rhoda Alexander, director of tablet and monitor research at IHS. AMOLED screens could change that, she said, because colors will pop out when compared side by side at a Walmart or a Best Buy.
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Here are 10 great ways to cover your windows and save on home heating and cooling.
1. Plastic sheeting: Plastic sheet kits for windows are a relatively inexpensive item that can save big bucks on monthly heating bills. Kits are available in indoor and outdoor versions. Seal off three-season porches and unused patio doors for the winter to decrease heat loss.
2. Nano-ceramic window films: High tech spectrally-selective "nano-ceramic" window films, available mainly to the building industry, provide a protective barrier against harmful infrared and UV radiation. These films,in clear or tinted varieties, let in maximum amounts of light while keeping out the sun's destructive rays.
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5. Solar shades: Solar shades are lined shades that completely cover a window opening. Made from heat and glare resistant materials, solar shades come in several different light blocking levels and opaqueness. The exterior sides are often treated with UV ray blocking properties that allow light to pass into the home, yet reflect the heat back out.
6. Drapes: Heavy hanging drapes are a beautiful way to cover up windows, especially those that may have leaks. Even windows that are relatively sound aren't completely heatproof and heavy insulated drapes will keep the chill and drafts at bay. Closing the drapery at night provides additional protection. Drapery that is mounted as close to the wall as possible will have added coverage (versus a 3-4" projection away from the wall or window).
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10. Hard panels: Insulating hard panels are generally made from simple insulating foam cut slightly larger than window size and pushed into place. They can be backed with plywood and painted to match the home's exterior or interior. This is a total light and air blocking option, good for little used rooms such as basements or spare bedrooms. Excellent energy savings, but at the cost of light exposure.
Talk to a qualified HVAC pro about more ways to save money on heating and cooling your home.
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Sunday, April 29, 2012
Should I say something?
I was recently talking to my cousin (a remarried, working mom) on the phone. She has a daughter who's almost ten years old, and she told me that since her husband gets home very late from work on weekdays, she's developed a new routine for the last year. Every single day, she takes her daughter to McDonald's for dinner. Monday through Friday, the girl is being nourished by fast food.
I kept my mouth shut because I hate it when people judge me for giving my kids fast food. But I wonder, is this a time when I should have said something? Will years of daily McDonald's cause long term effects and do I owe it to her daughter to say something? Should I just slip her a copy of Supersize Me?
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- AnonymousApril 29, 2012 at 8:30 AM
I'd say something but I'd try to be constructive/helpful. Maybe get her an easy cookbook you like or cooking lessons and tell her you're worried about the long term health effects of eating at mcdonald's daily. She might be depressed or there might be other issues going on. Don't get her Supersize Me because because you're trying to help not shame her.ReplyDelete
Maybe tell her how much you (and your kids) love Chipotle and comment that there's one X miles from where they live (if there is one)? I think it would be almost impossible to say something without coming off as judgmental and alienating her, the question is whether that matters to you, and whether you think your comment might make a difference. Do you think it's possible that she doesn't know that McDonalds is bad for you?ReplyDelete
I was joking about Supersize Me :)ReplyDelete
I think money is a big concern for her and fast food is cheap. I know she hates to cook. Surely she knows McDonald's is bad for you, but how bad is it really for kids? Her daughter isn't overweight or anything.
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I really like the first comment about giving her a cookbook for easy and healthy meals. I read recently that McDonald's foods are loaded with salt. Not good for anyone eating a steady diet of it.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 29, 2012 at 12:54 PM
I would be totally offended if someone got me a cookbook and told me not to go to McDonald's every day. The problem isn't that she doesn't know how to cook, or that she doesn't know that fast food is bad for you--the problem is that she has NO TIME, and maybe she perceives that it's not worth cooking if the whole family can't be home.ReplyDelete
Maybe offer to come over for dinner and bring food, or ask more 'insight' questions, a la smoking cessation~ why McD's? Why every day? Are there meals she misses cooking for her daughter?
I agree with OMDG, there's no way to not come off as patronizing, but there's probably ways to come off as less patronizing. You probably won't win her over in a day (it did take a year for things to get this way), but I think if you're supportive and a good listener, you might convince her in time.
Yes. Neglect is a form of child abuse.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 29, 2012 at 1:59 PM
Her child is going to get diabetes, hypertension, clogged arteries..etc, etc...ReplyDelete
You should say something. But, in the end if you don't, it's her child that's getting screwed over, not yours.
Will that be on your conscience?
- AnonymousApril 29, 2012 at 2:11 PM
As Americans, McDonalds seems horrible, but after serving on medical missions in impoverished countries, I have seen kids survive and thrive on much worse foodstuffs! Please do not shame this mom, she for sure knows this is not ideal. If you really want to help her, ask her what she needs and if she is happy. Help her if she lets you and otherwise, mind your own business!ReplyDelete
How close are you to her? If you are family friends, invite them over for dinner, then make something in front of them. This way, you can show it can be done easily and quickly. If she asks where the recipe comes from, loan her the book.ReplyDelete
She'd be better off feeding her kid frozen dinners from the health food section of the grocery store. Some decent quality meals aren't expensive and offer better nutrional value vs. McDonald's food. I keep my freezer stocked because I often don't feel like cooking when I work late. Example: Kashi black bean mango = 340 calories/8 mg fat/380 mg sodium. Not terrible.ReplyDelete
Something else is going on here. Why did she tell you this now?
I don't live geographically close to her. We were just chatting and I mentioned a birthday party we went to at McD's and she told me about this, just in a casual way.ReplyDelete
I just wonder how harmful it really is... someone called it child abuse, but I don't think so. If a kid gets McD's for dinner every day for a couple of years, does that really mean they're going to have health problems as an adult?
I think the bigger issue is that if the kid eats that way every day as a kid, she might continue the behavior... but I agree it would be pretty difficult to say something in a tactful way.ReplyDelete
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Childhood obesity can be devastating. How to broach the topic with your cousin is a different problem, and depends a lot on her personality. Maybe you could use the 'as a doctor, I have this annoying tic about educating people on health risks' angle? Seems less shaming than, 'as a mom, I think what you are doing constitutes bad motherhood' (not that you would ever talk like that!!! Just exaggerating to illustrate the point).
McDonald's Monday-Friday is definitely concerning and probably worth talking about.
- AnonymousApril 30, 2012 at 12:12 AM
I think calling this situation neglect is nonsense. I work with some kids who have been horribly neglected. I wish some of their parents would give McDonald's every day b/c at least I would know they were being fed.ReplyDelete
If I were in this situation, I would start off by asking a couple casual questions. Why did you pick McDonald's? So what is Susie's favorite thing to get there? Then I would probably throw in a few suggestions. "Oh I found this great website that has a ton of kid friendly recipes! You should check it out!"
- AnonymousApril 30, 2012 at 12:39 AM
"I think calling this situation neglect is nonsense. I work with some kids who have been horribly neglected. I wish some of their parents would give McDonald's every day b/c at least I would know they were being fed. "ReplyDelete
Why compare yourself to the worst? When you do that of course you're going to look good!
- AnonymousApril 30, 2012 at 8:11 AM
When I was a student I shadowed surgeon who told me because of his family busy schedules (wife full time nurse) they eat in fast food restaurants and they choose healthy ones. Taco Bell and Panera - both have choices of salads. And Panera's soups are my kids most favorite meal. Who can brag their children ask for soup? There must be similar restaurants in her area. McDonalds is not that cheap anymore. My kid gets 2-3.6$ meals at the restaurants I mentioned. Taco Bell prices beat Mcdonald's. And frozen dinners are good - only if your kid will agree to eat that soggy also salted meshy mass that comes out of the plastic tray (answer - my kids don't).ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 30, 2012 at 11:07 AM
I agree with asking her some questions about this. Maybe she brought it up because she's concerned ... but addressing it gently by asking her if she's concerned is the best way to start the conversation. ...ReplyDelete
Also ... fast food is not cheap. A slow-cooker meal of chili or a slow-cooked chicken is way cheaper per-meal than eating out anywhere
- AnonymousApril 30, 2012 at 12:37 PM
What about Subway? That could be a healthier fast food option too.ReplyDelete
This is the textbook definition of neglect. She should learn how to make sandwiches and buy fruit.ReplyDelete
1. Neglect may include the failure to provide sufficient supervision, nourishment, or medical care, or the failure to fulfill other needs for which the victim is helpless to provide for himself or herself.
2. Forcing your kids to eat god damned fast food every day until they are diabetic and fat. If you disagree go ask Child Protective Services about what nutritional neglect is.
I don't know, Jacob. If we start analyzing the quality of food every parent is giving to their kids, I think a lot of parents would be accused of neglect. Is a box of white meat chicken nuggets from McDonald's really worse than the frozen chicken nuggets from the supermarket? Or a bologna sandwich on white bread smothered in mayo? Or Kraft mac and cheese with their Cheese Powder #64? At least there are apple slices in the kids meal, which is probably more fruit than a lot of parents give to their kids.ReplyDelete
In my cousin's case, is her daughter (who as I said, is not overweight at all) really being exposed to something that awful?
- AnonymousApril 30, 2012 at 2:30 PM
Various Anons -- Since when is chili considered "healthy?" Panera soups have TONS of sodium in them. Is that healthy? And Taco Bell? Really? With its ground mystery meat and iceberg lettuce?ReplyDelete
I have to agree with you, Fizzy, especially on your last point.
- AnonymousApril 30, 2012 at 2:54 PM
Her daughter may not be overweight, but eventually mcdonald's is going to be the only thing she wants to eat if that is not the case already. I don't have any children, but I worked full time & I went to school full time, and still managed to cook. I used my crockpot a lot and I made things in large quantities that would last a few days like spaghetti and vegetarian chili.ReplyDelete
I also kept fruit, bottled water, nuts, etc. stashed in my bag and my car.
I think you should definitely bring this up to her. There are lots of recipes she can make in under an hour.
I also have coworkers who complain about not having enough time to cook like I do. I bring my dinner (I work evenings) everyday, and I always remind them, these "gourmet " meals I bring to work takes less than 30 minutes to make! :)
- AnonymousApril 30, 2012 at 3:08 PM
Under an HOUR? Are you serious? Who even has that kind of time in the evenings? I didn't even have it before I had kids! And you're not even including the time it takes to go to the grocery store or clean up.ReplyDelete
And please, let's not kid ourselves: Spaghetti isn't some magical health food.
I just find the moralizing about the food choices this woman is making laughable, especially in light of the alternatives that people are proposing.
Fizzy, you keep asking if this is really bad. As a pediatrician, I have to say YES!!!!!! She may not be overweight, but that dopes NOT mean her cholesterol is low, her TGs are low, etc... That food is REALLY bad for you, especially when you start in childhood!!! You can get fatty liver disease just from that, and not have the weight to show it! There are numerous nutritional studies showing how this continuous fat, sugar and salt (McDs adds all of these to their fries before even frying them) is really bad for long term health. You have to say SOMETHING. You don't have to tell her all that, but she clearly can't realize how bad it is for her child to consume this food on a daily basis. And healthy, CHEAPER food can be made at home with 20 minutes per day. I buy bags of frozen vegis and frozen dishes to make fast, and make big dishes when I have time to freeze for the week. The microwave is our dinners' best friend. And when all else fails, I make omlettes for everyone for dinner- eggs are cheap and healthy (not everyday) and the omlette takes one spray of oil, 1 egg cracked, and 5 minutes to fry. Microwave some vegis, and wala, dinner in less than 15 minutes. Really!ReplyDelete
BTW, in residency I once saw a case of a mom feeding her child ONLY McDonalds french fries every single day, and someone (not me) called CPS (before I saw them, I was involved only after the fact), who arranged for them to have a nutritionist, blood tests, and follow up. It was for the best in that one case. I'm NOT telling you to call CPS, I'm just saying.
- AnonymousApril 30, 2012 at 4:05 PM
@Anon 3:08 there are a lot of things that don't take an hour to make. You can also do prep with certain foods before hand and over the weekend and freeze for later like Cigal MD stated. This isn't a clean cut solution, but it's a start. I didn't say spaghetti was a super food, but would you rather feed your kid something you made where you can eliminate meat, excess salt, add veggies, etc Or feed your child McDonalds five days a week?ReplyDelete
I also mentioned that I make things in larger quantities so there would be leftovers, which doesn't require a lot of time, just simply heat it up.
No one is saying she shouldn't take her daughter to McDonald's at all, just not everyday.
- AnonymousApril 30, 2012 at 4:27 PM
Anon at 2:30pm REALLY. You sound so dramatic, you probably do not have kids and eat 100% organic home made meals. Taco and Panera soup I bet will not have as much trans-fats as fried fast foods. In my family we do not order iceberg salads smothered in mayonese. We use olive based oil dressings which are avaiable in above chain restaurants.ReplyDelete
And for your information ALL american foods sold in the stores have more sugar and salt than european analogous. In Great Britain government ordered reducing salt contents by 1-2 % per year to all food manufacturos. But here salt overload continues.
- AnonymousApril 30, 2012 at 5:35 PM
That's true. Sodium is everywhere. That's why I never eat frozen/microwaveable foods (unless it's frozen peas or corn).ReplyDelete
Tons of things take less than an hour to make. The old lame excuse that there's no time to go to the market or prepare something is absolute bull****. If you can make time to watch TV or write a comment on this blog, then you can take time to pick up some fruit, cut it up, and serve it to your kid. Even a boiled potato with a slice of cheese or boiled corn/vegetables doesn't even take 30 minutes to make.
My kid is a good eater, but if I made her a boiled potato and boiled corn for dinner, she'd never touch it. How many kids would? And I'm not entirely sure that's a healthy dinner anyway.ReplyDelete
I'm not a nutritionist or anything, but it seems like everyone is suggesting meals that don't involve meat. Is meat supposed to be bad for growing kids? I actually try to include a little meat every night with dinner, because I think kids have a tendency to just want to eat carbs.
Regarding Taco Bell: I know someone who used to work there and although he won't tell me anything specific, he said he would never ever eat there in a million years.
- AnonymousApril 30, 2012 at 7:15 PM
Then how do you get your child to eat vegetables and other things they don't like if you're just going to let them decide what to eat all the time?ReplyDelete
As a kid, I didn't like to eat vegetables either, but I wasn't allowed to leave the dinner table until I was done with them. Eventually, I grew to like them. I'm glad my mother did this, otherwise I would have just eaten whatever the heck I wanted and gotten sick.
I asked the first question more to see what you guys do, not to offend anyone.
What do you think would have happened if you ate all the food on your plate except your vegetables? Do you really think you would have gotten sick?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 30, 2012 at 8:39 PM
I wouldn't have, but then again, I wasn't eating McDonald's when I was a kid.ReplyDelete
also there is the SNAP progam, formerly known as EBT and foodstamps. Some 15% of the nation is on it. some states and town have other local food programs.ReplyDelete
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Two different accelerators have found evidence for a particle that appears to contain four quarks, according to papers published in Physical Review Letters. Although particles with two and three quarks are common, this would be the first time that something containing four quarks has been spotted. Depending on the precise nature of the interactions among the quarks, this could be a discovery that keeps the theoreticians very busy.
With the discovery of the Higgs boson, the predicted collection of fundamental particles was complete. But one family of these fundamental particles—the quarks—combine with gluons to make more complex particles called hadrons and mesons. Hadrons include the proton and neutron, and they are formed by combinations of three quarks. Mesons, which are unstable, are comprised of pairs of quarks.
Having only two quarks would seem to make mesons fairly simple when actually they're anything but. There are three families of quarks, each with a particle and antiparticle, and mesons can consist of any combination of these. They also create some of the more amusing nomenclature in physics, with mesons involving a strange quark being referred to as strangeonium, and those with a bottom quark as bottomonium.
Earlier collider experiments had suggested that the presence of a meson with two bottom quarks might be associated with a heavier particle of unknown properties. So, two different teams, one working at a collider in Japan, the other at one in Beijing, decided to look at whether the same was true with charmonium. (Both colliders are electron-positron colliders, which have many advantages, despite their relatively low energies.)
So, the teams looked at events that included a J/ψ meson, which is a single particle (with two names, since two groups announced its discovery simultaneously) that is composed of a charm quark and a charm antiquark. To do this, they scanned the data sets generated by two different detectors: BES III in Beijing, and Belle at the KEK facility in Japan. The researchers pulled out those events that included a J/ψ and a pair of π particles (another type of meson), with the J/ψ being spotted due to its decay either into an electron and positron, or a muon and antimuon. With those in hand, they searched for indications that the J/ψ was the product of the decay of a heavier particle. (They do this by looking at what's called the "structure of the mass spectrum").
Both teams found something at 3.9GeV, which they're terming Zc(3900) due to its apparent mass of 3900MeV. But its presence is coupled to the appearance of charged π particles, which suggests that the new particle itself is charged. This means that it is probably comprised of four quarks. And, as mentioned above, particles with four quarks have not been previously detected.
The results have a statistical significance well above that required to count for discovery in particle physics, and the fact that there seems to be a similar heavy particle for bottom quarks suggests that this may be a common feature for all the quarks. There's also nothing in particular that rules out four-quark particles but we've gotten pretty deep into the era of particle physics without ever detecting one, so the results are surprising.
Most of the debate, however, seems to focus on how exactly could four quarks combine. One option is that they combine in the same way that two quarks combine with gluons to make mesons and three combine with gluons to form hadrons. The alternative would be what some reports are calling a "meson molecule," where a pair of two-quark mesons are held together by an attractive force. The problem with the latter option, as noted by Nature News, is that the molecule should be less stable than its constituent mesons. But the detectors see no sign of it splitting apart before it decays.
Given the clear method for spotting the Zc(3900) laid out by these papers, it should be easy for anybody to comb through their data and look for similar events, which may shed some more light on the particle's properties. And, in the mean time, it's a safe bet that theorists will be looking carefully at various forms of four-quark particles (molecule and otherwise) to see what sort of predictions they could make about the particle's behavior.
Physical Review Letters, 2013. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.252002, 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.252001 (About DOIs).


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Hall of Famers Ernie Banks and Richard Dent support gay marriage in Illinois
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Two Hall of Fame athletes signed a letter supporting a gay marriage bill on its way to the Illinois House.
Former Chicago Cubs shortstop Ernie Banks and former Chicago Bears defensive end Richard Dent, along with former Bears Hunter Hillenmeyer and Brendan Ayanbadejo, wrote that the "Illinois General Assembly should act now and give same-sex couples the freedom to marry."
"In sports, any time a player is not treated with fairness and respect, the game is diminished," the letter reads in part. "Similarly, treating any group of people as second-class citizens hurts us all, because ...


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Lowly worm inspires an impressive collection of words
For a word person, a worm, a leech and a fly have something unusual in common: Each is a creature whose name is also something it can do.
"To worm" is to progress "in a winding, creeping or devious manner," which is how worms move, except for the devious part. However, people have been known to worm their way into situations and worm information out of each other by devious means.
Such activities may open a "can of worms," an informal term for "a complex, usually unpleasant problem."
That might lead to calling someone a worm, meaning "an abject, wretched or contemptible person."
In another allusion to a worm's perceived lowly status, there's "worm's-eye view," which is "an outlook from very close range, but from an inferior or menial position."
We also have the use of "worm" figuratively as "something that gnaws or distresses one inwardly," as in "worm of conscience"; the adjectives "wormy" for "debased; groveling" and "worm-eaten" for "worn-out, out-of-date, etc."; and the noun "wormwood," a group of plants capable of producing strong smells and bitter oils. That last one also can be used for a particularly unpleasant experience that leaves a bad taste in your mouth, literally or figuratively.
A computer worm is a type of unauthorized program that disrupts a system by making copies and eating up memory. Apparently it isn't the same as a computer virus, but I won't pretend to know the difference.
Worm terms are not all about dirt and erosion, however. On Earth, a "wormhole" is evidence that a creature has been dining there. Out in the great beyond of our universe, a wormhole is "a hypothetical space-time tunnel or channel connecting a black hole with another universe, a white hole, etc." I'm not going to pretend I understand that stuff, either, but it certainly sounds like a cut above crawling through the mud.
In fact, you might say "the worm has turned" in that case. Today, we tend to use this wonderful phrase to indicate a significant change in some situation. Originally, it was intended as a warning to bullies that eventually even the meekest among us will eventually say enough is enough and fight back.
It comes from an old proverb, stated as "Tread on a worm and it will turn" or "Even a worm will turn."
As for the leech, "to leech" is "to act as a parasite." Leeches have been used in medicine to bleed patients, but most of the time they suck our blood when we don't want them to.
"Leech" used to be a synonym for physician, but these days it's an uncomplimentary term for "a person who clings to another to gain some personal advantage."
Finally, flies can fly, but they do lots of disgusting and harmful things, too.
This is reflected in the phrase "fly in the ointment," which can apply to "anything, especially a little thing, that reduces or destroys the value or usefulness of something else."
Most other fly terms are related to moving through the air rather than to the insect. One interesting exception is, "I'd like to be a fly on the wall at that meeting."
The idea is to be able to eavesdrop with no risk of being caught. Of course, you would still be a fly, so even if you could understand what was going on, what could you do with it?
Why not just bug the room?
Barry Wood is a senior copy editor for the Register Star. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Be quiet. U Hindu raypist from India.
A plebiscite is needed in Kashmir.
Hey CNN. What about the 70 year long wait for a plebiscite.
Dang it. My icon keeps changing. Must give @banasy fits.
Not really. But it is the way to tell when it is you, and not give you a way to lie about yet more stuff in staid of admitting you said it and moving on.
Hannah, Philip, Blue Saffron, chrissy, and banasy are all my bi itches.
Have I left anyone out
Philip is my guy bi itch. I do him in Colorado
My poor icon. Awe. He is changing.
Rupert. According to the DoJ, Americans reportedly raip over 260,000 men, women, girls and even boys every single year for many years. AND the vast majority of raipes in the USA go unreported. Americans are ! billion less people than citizens of India, btw. Yet you flunked 8th grade algebra and so my words mean nothing to you.
@ Rupert. Do you even know what a plebian is?
Hello @ rupert. I dont know guess you will have to google it and find out. Are you planning a trip there?
Yes I do. I'm not dumm. I googled it. Now I will Google ..Philip CNN blogs,banasy, chrissy.
Lol. So you had to Google it since you forgot that your 8th grade world history teacher had already taught you what a plebian was. Well ain't that just special.
Hi cutie patootie. No. It's too cold in Colorado.
Are u ok
Huh? Was springtime here today you idiot.
@banutzi. There IS such a thing as an abortion seeking white hoe bag. No matter what you say there are females seeking abortions based on skin color. You are in denial of this well known fact.
I've never denied that, you ignorant ass.
I'll ask you again: why did you abort your 3 offspring?
260,000. That's a lot of rayping going on.
260K is only the reported raipes. By many estimates, 80% of US raipes go unreported.
Dear CNN.
U changed everything. I wish u had consulted with me first. U took the fun out. How's a guy supposed to troll or steal names
Women are RIGHT NOW being beheaded in the streets of Saudi Arabia. And poor old king of Said is dead. Wah wah boo hop, says your president.
Ok. So 260,000 is 20%. So 80% is a big big number.
Good news is forensics is very advanced.
Bet that Saudi king rayped his maid.
Im ok for now @ rupert, thank you for asking! Just "avoiding the noid" right now lmao!
There IS such a thing as a white hoe bag who got drunk and f'ed a black man, and then went to a fetus extractor based on skin color of unborn baby. How did you miss this? It's even in movies now. Sheesh.
I didn't miss that; but if you think all babies are aborted because they are biracial, your a moron.
They were aborted because they were unwanted.
What method was used on your offspring? Do you know?
You lying old hag. I have NEVER aborted a child. EVER! I once made a woman pregnant who got an abortion because having a baby would interfere with her job. So I dumped her and moved on. And that's it! Accusing me of aborting two babies is the lowest you have sank in my eyes.
January 24, 2015 at 12:34 pm |
Actually, as I have proved, it's THREE babies you've aborted.
With this woman you dumped, why didn't you take her in, pay her bills, paid hospital expenses, and keep the child after birth to raise? Hmmmm, hypocrite?
"Job interference" isn't a compelling reason why you would willing let that unborn fetus die, right?
Was it because it was a convenience to you, too?
Lol fence straddling is a dangerous game! Lmao!
I have never aborted a baby you lying old hag. How in the heck could I stop those bar floozies I made pregnant? Get a clue you prude.
Lol. Shut up, you bloody hypocrite. You knowingly let 3 of your offspring be terminated, and yet you have the gall to say things like this:
Unwanted pregnancies are a matter for JUSTICE to decide and the weighty burden of deciding what should be done with the unwanted baby should NOT be thrown on the shoulders of one single woman.
Everyone admits that the secret to a happy family is a mother and a father deciding important matters TOGETHER, not apart. True Justice requires hearing from BOTH parties involved in wrongdoing. BOTH, not just one side of the story. And do we not have court appointed children's advocates who speak-out on behalf of unwanted children? Why, YES! We do. And so to be consistent, Justice requires someone speaking on behalf of the unwanted child at the center of the abortion issue.
We should NOT just hear the woman's side of the story. Lives other than her own are at stake. Lives of MILLIONS of prospective American citizens: Unwanted living human fetuses. NOT just clumps of meat in some woman's gut as pro-choice advocates claim.
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You have zero rights to call yourself the unborn's advocate when you have killed three of your own.
Now, if men were in charge of unborn babies rather than women, I would have stopped the first one and married her. So stfu. You women are victims of your own lust for power over men, and seem to be satisfied by the bones today's ruling men throw you by appointing token women political leaders. To give you hope that women are equal to men. Which they are NOT! It's Adam and Eve, NOT Eve and Adam as you power hungry 81 IQ fems would like.
If I were a multiple baby aborter, I would be in prison. You must have a license to kill babies in the USA. I have never had one. So stfu about me and move-on to the news. Which is what this blog is for.
You are employing semantics here; you knowingly let 3 of your offspring be terminated.
You are just as guilty as they are, says The Word.
Would you look at that lmao! The male hoe in the room is gonna make such a ridiculous claim as that! That is the lamest defence you could come up with? I didnt DO it! I only drove them to get it done! Lol its not my fault said the deadbeat! Lol
I WAS a male hoe,Chrussty. Not now though. Just as the Apostle Paul was world famous for hunting-down Christians for sport when he was a Jew leader...before he became a Christian. I'm not that way anymore you dillrod user.
What's a dillrod user, Philip? Are you lying about people again?
My, the hypocrisy never stops.
You women need to go pleasure yourselves instead of enjoying attacking me to get your rocks off.
And, @Donna Banasy. I am not done with you yet. I am personally going to travel to your home town this summer and hire a private investigator. You are in hot soup with me. Got it?
Ha ha ha ha ha. Bring it on, idiot.
Just can't stand being called out as the liar you are, can you??
Where will u 3 be blogging next month. Gig is up here.
I ill be on Ashleigh Banfield's Facebook chat. She's the cub reporter on 9/11 ground zero world famous for yelling LIVE on the air "I smell cordite! I smell cordite! (cordite, the smell of explosive charges going off)
That, and UFO chat.
I am PERSONALLY going to see that you are exposed. Nobody is a perfect law-abiding citizen. You are in deep shat. You really have my dander up. And you won't even know it was me. Because you are stupid.
Nah. I never claimed to be perfect; I just don't need to fabricate stuff to call attention to myself the way you do.
And get caught in your fabrications.
You cannot do anything to me; you are powerless over me.
And that really makes you the angriest: that you have zero effect on my life at all.
Oh no. Not a private investigator. That's expensive.
No. You can hire an IT tech guy for one hour for about 50 bucks now. And an on-the-ground PI for less than $250 per day.
It's not like Donna Banas is a complicated woman.


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Docs: Same-sex marriage benefits kids
Children raised by gay or lesbian couples benefit when their parents are allowed to marry, America's top pediatrics group said Thursday in support of same-sex marriage.
"If a child has two living and capable parents who choose to create a permanent bond by way of civil marriage, it is in the best interest of their child(ren) that legal and social institutions allow and support them to do so, irrespective of their sexual orientation," the American Academy of Pediatrics said in a policy statement.
Dr. Ellen Perrin, co-author of the policy statement, says marriage gives children of same-sex couples the same advantages of any married couple's children.
"Marriage provides permanence and security for children, and those are extremely important for children's well-being," said Perrin, a professor at Tufts University School of Medicine who specializes in the developmental behavior of children. "(Marriage) allows them to grow up in an environment in which they're confident of the solidity of their family and the fact that their family is just like every other family of kids they know in school."
Almost 2 million children are being raised by gay and lesbian parents, according to the AAP. Only nine states and the District of Columbia currently allow same-sex couples to legally marry.
The policy statement comes as the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to consider two same-sex marriage cases next week. One involves the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as between a man and a woman. The other involves a California law banning gay marriage.
Critics of same-sex marriage have argued it hurts children, citing research that claims children do better when both a mother and a father are in the home.
In a 2009 story, Dale O'Leary, author of the book "One Man, One Woman: A Catholic's Guide to Defending Marriage," said being raised by a same-sex couple damaged children. All children have a natural desire for a parent of each gender, she says, and children of same-sex couples are forced to repress that desire because their parents won't accept it.
In a 2010 opinion piece, Bishop Harry R. Jackson Jr., senior pastor of Hope Christian Church in Beltsville, Maryland, said "An eight-year study of girls and their families showed that a father's presence in the home, with appropriate involvement in his children's lives, contributed to daughters' reaching puberty at a later age."
Although Jackson did not provide specifics on the study, Perrin dismisses such concerns and says virtually all the studies evaluating the benefit of having both a mother and a father in the home compare the situation to a one-parent family, typically the mother alone—not to two parents of the same sex.
"This is something that people are often concerned about, but in reality it just isn't really a problem for these families," she said. "It's very clear that other people in the child's family environment can substitute for a male or a female influence."
In reaching its conclusion, the American Academy of Pediatrics authors reviewed more than 30 years of scientific research evaluating children raised by gay and lesbian parents.
"There's no relationship between parents' gender or sexual orientation and their children's well-being," Perrin said. "Our conclusion is based in the fact that there's no evidence at all that same-sex marriage harms children in any way."
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